Adele opens up on postpartum depression: 'It frightened me'

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published 31 October 2016

Adele's plans for the future include a possible appearance on Broadway and singing until she's 70 — but probably not having another child. In the singer's interview for Vanity Fair's December cover story, she admitted that she is "too scared" to have another child after her first experience with her now 4-year-old son, Angelo. "I had really bad postpartum depression after I had my son, and it frightened me," Adele said.

While in the throes of postpartum depression, Adele said she initially dismissed the suggestions of Simon Konecki, her longtime boyfriend and Angelo's father, to "talk to other women who were pregnant." But, she said, she eventually found herself "gravitating towards pregnant women and other women with children" anyway, because they're "a bit more patient":

"My friends who didn't have kids would get annoyed with me," she continues, "whereas I knew I could just sit there and chat absolute mush with my friends who had children, and we wouldn't judge each other. One day I said to a friend, 'I f--kin' hate this,' and she just burst into tears and said, 'I f--kin' hate this, too.' And it was done. It lifted. [...] Eventually I just said, I'm going to give myself an afternoon a week, just to do whatever the f--k I want without my baby. A friend of mine said, 'Really? Don't you feel bad?' I said, I do, but not as bad as I'd feel if I didn't do it." [Vanity Fair]

Head over to Vanity Fair for more of Adele's honesty on the difficulties of motherhood — and to find out what role she's dying to play on Broadway.